Armor & Mobility

MAR/APR 2017

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Rear Adm. Zarkowski: Public-private partnerships
(PPP) and Performance based logistics (PBL) are
powerful productivity tools, bringing together
the complementary strengths of Naval Aviation
and our industry partners. PPPs are cooperative
arrangements between government-owned and
-operated product support providers—such
as the FRCs—and one or more private sector
company to perform maintenance and repairs
using government facilities and/or equipment.
In Naval Aviation, this usually means contractors
take responsibility for most of the management
of the work while the Navy provides the depot
workforce and retains aircraft configuration
control.
PBLs are contracts or agreements which
drive result-oriented performance by logis-
tics support providers. Industry taps into its
resources to meet set goals at best possi-
ble cost, providing Naval Aviation with parts,
improved reliability, obsolescence management
and other logistics elements. To date, 17 NAV-
SUP WSS PBL partnerships between industry
and Navy depot-level maintenance facilities are
in place with seven more in work or planned.
We are also working to improve the language in
PBL contracts and establish Performance Based
Partnerships. This will help us better scope the
workload and adhere to workload requirements.
A&M: Any other goals Fleet Readiness Centers
are addressing going forward in 2017?
Rear Adm. Zarkowski: COMFRC is leading the
NAE's effort to implement Sustainment Vision
2020: an alternative approach to its current
sustainment processes and practices. It covers
six key areas. First, it establishes the Naval
Aviation Sustainment Center, a centralized
location which will house actionable data
enabling Naval Aviation stakeholders and providers to make fully
informed, real-time decisions affecting operational readiness.
Workforce Proficiency is the second area of focus for Sus-
tainment Vision 2020. It will first establish a single maintenance
proficiency documentation system for all military and civilian main-
tainers to enable global visibility of qualifications and certifications.
Secondly, it will establish and formalize a process to certify military
maintainers to perform depot repairs. This will result in more rapid
repairs at a significantly lower cost.
The third area is Dynamic Scheduling, which will use task level,
Reliability Centered Maintenance requirements to generate tailored
scheduled and unscheduled maintenance packages based on actual
aircraft usage balanced with minimizing aircraft down time.
Enterprise Capability and Capacity is a fourth area which will
provide the NAE with the total asset visibility into repair capability
and capacity across the fleet, including Marine aviation logistics
squadrons and intermediate-level maintenance facilities. It will
also provide the ability to perform what-if analysis based on future
operational support scenarios. The other two areas are Financial,
which seeks to reduce funding constraints and barriers, and Sup-
ply Optimization that will better align maintenance required at the
flight line with material support requirements to ensure that Sailors
and Marines at the squadrons have the materials to meet readiness
requirements.
Naval Aviation still has a lot of work to do. It takes time to elimi-
nate readiness gaps across all TMS. The successes we see today
are a direct result of our workforce taking on the challenge of better
providing readiness to the fleet. Our efforts are paying off, and I am
confident we will get there.
Components Integrated Product Team Lead Tim Postemski, right, shows work being performed on an F/A-18 Hornet wing at
Fleet Readiness Center Southeast to Rear Adm. Mike Zarkowski, Commander Fleet Readiness Centers. Cmdr. Grady Duffey, far
left, and Anthony Collamati, F/A-18 wing program manager, near left, look on. (U.S. Navy photo by Kaylee Larocque/Released)
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